Your interviewer: A P.Eng. (or similar) with education and engineering experience similar to your engineering stream.

The process:

Your interviewer will review your work samples prior to the video call

During the video call, you'll present your two work samples and answer technical questions.

The following business day your interviewer will send comments and feedback by email.

Let's be honest. Your interview is about more than your engineering experience. It's about you standing in front of 3 strangers and being comfortable enough to answer technical questions about your work samples for up to 60 minutes. Simply coming up with two work samples is not enough.

If you are serious about doing your best at the interview, you need to become comfortable discussing and defending your experience to complete strangers.

The PEO ERC interview exists to answer the question, will your presentation skills and engineering experience convince PEO that you have applied enough academic knowledge in an engineering context?

The stakes are pretty high. Do well–you'll move to your next licensing step or you'll receive your licence (depending on where you are in the process). Do poorly–you'll need to gain more experience and/or write technical exams; both of which costs you time, money and slows your career to a grinding halt.

At Practice PPE Exams, we believe that your presentation skills shouldn’t prevent you from articulating your experience and passing the interview.

We've carefully developed a mock-interview roadmap that we have used for other ERC interviewees to help them prepare for the exam:

About the Mock Interview

It's designed to simulate the experience to make your more comfortable in the real interview.

We use just one P.Eng. interviewer since two would be twice the price and isn't needed for a mock interview.

It's conducted over Appear.In which is like Skype but without the need to log in to any account. All you need is a computer with a built-in mic and webcam.

We'll match you up with a qualified person (P.Eng. or similar) in your field to ensure your feedback is technical and helpful.

We have expert consultants that can help with a variety of streams under the following disciplines: civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and biomedical.

If you place your order and your background is in a very specific area where we don't have a consultant, we'll contact you to let you know and provide you with a prompt refund.

We care about you receiving your licence–we'll take the time to review your work samples, attend the interview, ask you challenging questions and provide you with actionable feedback so you can drastically increase your chances of passing.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Our team conducts interviews in the following engineering discipline streams:

Civil

Geotechnical Engineering

Roads, Bridges, and Infrastructure

Buildings and Structures

Electrical

computer (software)

computer (hardware)

computer (networking)

electronic (control)

electronic (telecommunications)

optical

power

Mechanical

Mechanics

Thermodynamics and thermo-science

Design and drafting

Q. What does the process look like?

We will start by analyzing your degree and work history. Then, we will send your information to a hand-selected P.Eng. consultant in a similar engineering stream and work experience. They will set up a video conference mock-interview. We use Appear.in to conduct the interviews, which is similar to Skype.

You can dress the way you would for your real interview. You don't have to worry spending money to travel to meet us in person.

The mock interview lasts approximately 1 hour.

One business day later, your reviewer will send you an email with a list of comments and suggestions for improvement.

Q. Who are your expert interviewers?

Practice PPE Exams retains the services of approximately a dozen P.Eng. (or similar) experts in a variety of engineering streams mainly focused under civil, electrical and mechanical.

After we learn about your engineering discipline, stream and work experience, we'll pair you up with someone with a similar background and experience. If we don't have anyone available, then we reach our to our mailing list (with thousands of subscribers) to see if anyone can help.

Here is a spotlight on some of our experts:

Francisco Villa, P.Eng. is an Electronics Engineer with 9 years of professional experience. He has worked as a Systems & Process Control Engineer in the Oil/Gas and Mining industries in Canada and Chile, where he gained experience related to Instrumentation and Control Systems. He also has professional experience designing electronic devices by the use of analog/digital components.

Utkarsh Patel, MASc, P.Eng. is an experienced electrical engineer with specialization in power systems. He is working as an electrical engineer since last five years being electrical system owner and overseeing industrial power distribution systems. He holds P.Eng. in the Province of Ontario and is registered as a professional member of IEEE. He has published papers in IEEE journal and conferences.

Q. Do I need to have design experience?

Yes. Your association has requested an interview to gauge if the experience you have gained meets a professional level. In order to achieve this, you typically need some prior design work to properly demonstrate the application of engineering theory and practical experience.

Unfortunately, this service will not make you a designer or teach you how to design. It is intended to simulate the real interview, giving someone with prior design experience: